Result — Chronometer No. 2557, fast of sidereal time h. m. s. 

 for this station (at 14/t. Sim. sidereal) + 1 00 38.81 



By comparison — Clironometer No. 141, was fast of 

 mean solar time for this station (at 14A. 12m. 

 mean time) - - - - - + 5 23.05 



Rates of Chronometers from the 2Uh to the 28th of March, 1858. 

 Sidereal chronometer No. 2557, gains per sidereal day, + 4s.l4 

 Mean solar chronometer No. 141, loses per mean solar 



day, - - - - - — Os.637 



Sd. The Longitude. 



Albany Station, west of the meridian of Fulton Station, by the 



Albany time-observations of March 25th: s. 



By the run of sidereal chronometer No. 2557, - + 14.49 



By the run of mean solar chronometer No. 141, - + 14.15 



By the Albany time-observations of March 26th : 



By the run of sidereal chronometer No. 2557, + 14.32 



By the run of m.ean solar chronometer No. 141, - -f- 13.97 



Mean of these four results, - - - + 14.23 



h. m. s. 

 Longitude of Fulton observing station, - -}- 6 00 39.99 



Longitude deduced of the Albany observing station, + 6 00 54.22 

 Reduction to the intersection of Maple and Main 



Streets, ....._ 0.06 



Result — Longitude of the intersection of Maple and 

 Main streets, Albany, Ills., west of the meridian 

 of Greenwich, - - - - 00 54.16 



Equal, in arc, to .... 90M3' 32".4 VV. 



Latitude of the same point, as before, - 41° 47' 20". 3 N. 



On Nicollet's map, this position is placed in latitude 41° 45' 37" N. 

 and in longitude OO*" 21' 52" VV., which differs from our result by 

 — 1' 43" in latitude, and + 8' 30" in longitude. This place is not 

 laid down on the other m;i|). 



A town is now being laid out on the site of an extensive group of 



